Solaris 10 VM goes into reboot loop after being converted from VMWare to KVM
I have an old VMWare Server 2 VM using Solaris 10 for x86 (10/09) which goes into a reboot loop early in the boot process.
I converted it to a single file VMDK (it was split into 2GB chunks). Converted it to raw with qemu-img convert. I got an error while converting but no info about what actually went wrong. It also went from a 10Gb VMDk to a 127GB raw file!? I created a VM in Proxmox 1.9 which created a 20GB raw LV in my LVM. Then I dded the raw file to the LV. I don't get far past the GRUB menu and Failsafe seems to take slightly longer to fail, does anyone know what may be causing this? |
The fact that you got an error during conversion and ended up with a 127GB disk is slightly worrying, I'd start looking at that before attempting to boot whatever the result contained.
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It does look suspicious but I can't find any kind of debug or logging option on qemu-img convert that will tell me what it's doing so I tried converting with VBoxManage. I decided to stop it when the raw file is generated reached about 95GB from the original 10! I suspect that it's because 127GB is the max size I set the VMDK to grow to. Is there any way of converting what's only been used?
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Have you tried virt-v2v ? - http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v/
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